Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone! It's been a pretty eventful weekend. On Friday, I went to a Halloween party in Wisconsin. Since there was no theme, I dressed up as Dracula's daughter. It was a pretty cool costume, right down to the silver vampire fangs. The house decorations were amazing! There were fog machines filling the house with fog, tons of food, table pool, and rock band. It was a lot of fun, even if I didn't get a lot of sleep and had to drive 2 hours home to cat-sit. Last night, I had another Halloween party to go to. In honor of the hostess turning 50 in a couple weeks, the theme was crazy nursing home. It was hilarious! There were people dressed with extra padding for "extra love," and several people had adult diapers on. I went as a nurse to keep everyone alive and under control. There was also tons of food. And of course, we sang happy birthday to the hostess and had yummy birthday cake. It was a lot of fun.

Today, on the other hand, hasn't been quite as exciting. My mom and I went to a play this afternoon, "The Chocolate Factory." It was a dance production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It was very nicely done. The songs were very similar, and the costumes were great. I even knew the composer/orchestra director. He was one of my teachers in high school, and it was nice to catch-up with him after the production.

Now for the not-so-exciting part of today, which would be right now. Before I get into the deep of things, I have to say that I have been doing really well about not letting my unemployment get to me. But it is all starting to hit me, hard. In the middle of last week, my grandpa was admitted to the hospital for pain management from falling and fracturing his hip/pelvis in 3 places. Now, my grandparents are convinced that my grandpa won't be returning home, but instead will be heading to a nursing home right from the hospital. In my opinion, this is a good thing. At an assisted living center, they will be able to get proper care and socialization. My grandparents see it as a place to get dumped and forgotten. My mom has been losing control of her anger lately, not that it's really anything new. It's just getting more out of control lately. I have been unemployed now for 2 1/2 months. I have been filling out applications and calling clinics every week, and still I have nothing to show for it. We are taking a family vacation in a week to Wisconsin Dells, and my mom was complaining about money issues. If anyone is going to complain about money issues, it should be me since I'm the one with credit card bills and student loans to pay and no job. With everything building up, it just set me off. And I now see myself as a lazy bum living on my parents couch without a purpose in this world. I have been trying so hard to get me back on my feet, but I keep getting shot back down. I am beginning to think that I will never get out of this negative-energy-filled house and this controlling town where only people who work at Mayo and IBM actually have money. As the final result to all of this depressing stress, I have had a killer migraine for 3 days straight. I know they say that it gets worse before it gets better. This can't get much worse, so honestly, it can start getting better anytime now.